Re: Upgrade to 8.1.7 or 9i

The only place I would disagree here is the desupport argument. I would be willing to bet that release 9.0.1 will be desupported long before 8.1.7 considering 8.1.7 is the terminal release of 8i and 9.0.1 is the first release of 9i. Other than that, I agree. I've used both 8.1.7 and 9.0.1 and 9i is a very stable release of the RDBMS

"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message news:3c0fcd82$0$29048$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...

> 9i. It's robust, has lots of nice new features, can be migrated directly to
> from 7.3.4 (despite what the Oracle documentation itself says), and in many
> crucial areas is much more scalable than 8i (I'm thinking of dedicated
> agents for external procedures, multi-threaded heterogeneous service agents,
> and so on).
>
> 8.1.7 is de-supported in 2 years' time. Might as well hitch a ride on the
> newest version of the product, other things being equal.
>
> Regards
> HJR
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> "Thomas" <thomas.hiller_at_warema.de> wrote in message
> news:6e366956.0112060715.62df1b88_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have a more basic question. We currently run an very old Oracle
> > Server Version (7.3.4.1). Now we plan to migrate to a more up to date
> > version. Therefore my question is what Oracle Version to choose (8.1.7
> > or 9i). What are the advantages or disadvantages of the particular
> > versions. Let me know your experince about that.
> >
> > The main criteria is stability, the second is to improve the handling
> > of very big tables, the third the scalability - because it is
> > preditctable that the database is growing rapidly in the future
> >
> > What would you advice me ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas

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